Giving Compass' Take:
- The Aspen Institute provides resources surrounding America’s ever-pressing need for quality employment, focusing on building better jobs rather than better workers.
- What are quality jobs? Why does America have a job quality problem?
- Learn about producing high-quality jobs.
What is Giving Compass?
We connect donors to learning resources and ways to support community-led solutions. Learn more about us.
The US has a job quality crisis. Too many jobs are not quality jobs. Low-quality jobs exacerbate social and economic inequities across race, ethnicity, and gender, while hindering economic growth and straining public budgets. For too long too much went to “fixing workers.” Now is the time to “fix work.” We offer the Job Quality Center of Excellence as a new platform to drive improved job quality and economic dignity for workers through stakeholder engagement, idea generation, and resource sharing to prompt and support effective change/action.
Read the full article about quality employment at The Aspen Institute